Meaning of sweal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To burn slowly.
   intransitive
2. To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
   intransitive
3. To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
   transitive
4. To consume with fire; burn.
   dialectal, transitive
5. To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.
   dialectal, transitive

Examples

“[M]ind ye dinna let⟳ the candle sweal as ye gang alang the wainscot parlour, and haud a' the house scouring to get⟳ out the grease again.”

“"He thinks it's only a tumour!" cried Annie to her mother. "And he can sweal it away."”

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